Runaway bride: One wife of the leader of the Islamic State (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, fled from the territory controlled by the jihadist group in Iraq, according to Iraqi media

Pope Francis said Monday that “devastating” Islamist and other violence in the Middle East and Africa had brought different churches closer, as he met the Ethiopian Orthodox leader. It was a theme he raised in

The Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee has given its approval to MK Nissan Slomiansky’s (Jewish Home) bill to allow the Knesset Assembly to remove members with a majority of

President Reuven Rivlin on Monday morning visited the family of Eliyav Gelman, the IDF reserve officer killed by errant gunfire during a stabbing attack by a Palestinian terrorist last Wednesday.

The US embassy in Iraq has released evacuation recommendations it said could help save up to 1.5 million lives at risk from a catastrophic failure of the Mosul Dam. Concern has grown in

Iran’s judiciary chief on Sunday blasted the reformists, who are headed towards victory in the country’s elections, of working with Westerners to block hardliners In a statement quoted by Reuters,

Iran is planning to withdraw its entire fighting force from Syria, which includes 2,500 fighters, Israel’s Channel 2 News reported on Sunday. The report appears to confirm remarks made last

A Jordanian team arrived in Israel on Sunday, with the goal of installing surveillance cameras on the Temple Mount in the coming days, Jordanian Waqf Minister Hail Daoud told Jordanian

Has German Chancellor Angela Merkel given up on the “two-state solution”? The answer is no, according to several senior German officials. The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Sunday that the

IDF Spokesman Brigadier General Moti Almoz has commented on the issue of soldiers with beards, following updated instructions on how soldiers can receive exemptions from shaving. According to the new

The second of ten bodies of killed terrorists from eastern Jerusalem was returned Sunday night. Musab al-Ghazali, who was eliminated in December after trying to stab a policeman at Jerusalem’s

An event was held at the Begin Heritage Center last night (Sunday) to mark 100 years since the birth of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. The speakers included President Reuven

Dr. Soli Shahvar, the head of the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, does not see the pro-reformist election results in Iran as a particularly dramatic event. “There is

MK Yisrael Eichler (United Torah Judaism) on Sunday accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and additional ministers of being bribed by the Reform movement in the US. Eichler’s accusations come as

New IDF orders to come into force Wednesday will make it very difficult for soldiers to gain permission to grow their beards for religious reasons, but the religious website Srugim has dug

After Arutz Sheva‘s editorial board decided on Sunday not to air footage of the brutal terrorist attack last Thursday night which left a security guard fighting for his life, Arutz Sheva Editor-in-Chief Uzi Baruch

Abu Bakr al-Baghdad, chief of the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, has reportedly appointed a female Saudi to head up a new battalion in northeastern Syria, according to a report

Rapper and nationalist icon Yoav Eliasi, aka Hatzel, has been receiving numerous death threats but the police deny him the right to bear a weapon in self-defense. Eliasi displayed some

The death toll from a double suicide bombing in a Shiite district of Baghdad on Sunday reached 70, with more than 100 wounded, according to police, medics and morgue sources

A court in San Diego, California, has ruled that victims who were wounded in a 1997 terrorist attack on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem will be compensated by Iran. The

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on Sunday endorsed Republican candidate Donald Trump for president, becoming the first senator to endorse the first-time candidate and billionaire businessman, Fox News reported. The Alabama

Canada has met a self-imposed deadline to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees fleeing their country’s civil war, officials said, fulfilling a campaign promise by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “25000 reasons why

The High Court on Sunday night approved the demolition of the home the terrorist who carried out a car ramming attack at the Halhoul junction, near Hevron, last November, in

Supporters of the Iran-proxy Hezbollah terrorist organization began rioting around Beirut and east Lebanon on Saturday after Saudi-owned MBC television aired a comedy skit poking fun of the group’s leader

The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Sunday said direct payments by Iran to the families of terrorists killed in a five-month wave of Palestinian terror would not be received – unless they went through the

Greek officials and the UN have pointed to a growing humanitarian problem along the border between Macedonia and Greece, where up to 70,000 people who fled or otherwise emigrated from

The Awdah TV channel of Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction recently aired an interview showing most Palestinians condemn terror incitement in the media – an ironic point, given that

As Israel continues to struggle against a seemingly unrelenting wave of Arab terror, frustration and questions about what more the government can or should be doing to end the attacks

Roseanne Barr, the famous American comedian and actress, has recently become a leading advocate of Israel, and on Saturday night she revealed she may be moving to the Jewish state.

Beit Aryeh regional head Avi Naim has demanded for several years that the government complete construction of the bypass road from Beit Aryeh to the western Binyamin region in Samaria, after paving abruptly